Motley Fool Money: 10.09.2009

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🗓️ 9 October 2009

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Retailers report better than expected same-store sales numbers. Dr. Doom warns that it could get worse. Dell and Google take on the iPhone. And Google and Microsoft court Twitter. We'll tackle those topics, talk about McDonald’s new artsy side, and share three stock ideas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Motley Full Money, I'm Chris Hill, and I'm joined by Motley Full Senior
0:08.2	analyst Seth Jason, James Early, and Shannon Zimmer and guys.
0:11.8	Happy Friday.
0:12.8	Happy Friday, Chris.
0:13.9	On today's show, Dr. Doom warns that we haven't hit the bottom, Dell and Google take
0:18.7	on the iPhone, and McDonald's gets artistic.
0:22.6	Or as my friends in Boston say, artistic.
0:25.5	But we begin with better than expected retail numbers for September.
0:29.8	There's announced the first increase of same store sales since August of 2008.
0:35.2	Seth?
0:36.2	This got to be good news.
0:37.2	Well, I don't know.
0:38.2	Come on, first increase in over a year.
0:41.3	If you read past the headlines, most of the stores do mention that I've seen on this,
0:46.0	that there was a Labor Day holiday shift, so some places were moved back to school dates
0:51.4	a little bit later.
0:52.4	And so they took some business from August and moved it into September.
0:55.3	Some of the retailers I follow over at Hidden Gems, like Zoomies, was a beneficiary of
0:59.4	that.
1:00.4	So I would take this with a grain of salt.
1:03.2	There was also some conflicting news.
1:04.8	So I would say the data are in conclusive consumer credit continued to contract.
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